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Náttúrufræðingurinn - 1998, Page 17

Náttúrufræðingurinn - 1998, Page 17
semdir in.a. eftir W.C. Br. í Naturen 5, 47, 1881 og H.H. Reusch í sama riti, 112). Martins, Ch. 1848. De la colonisation végétale des íles Britanniques, des Shetland, des Feroe, et de l’Islande. Arch. Sci. Phys. et Nat. 8. 89- 106. (Þýðingar birtust í Ed. New Philos. J. 46, 40-52, 1848^19 og í Smithsonian Inst. Report for 1858, 228-239, 1859.) Nordenskiöld, A.E. 1893. Om stoftfaldet i Sverige och angriinsande liinder den 3:dje maj 1892. Geol. Fören. Förh. 15. 417^159. (Þýðing, stytt: Uber den groBen Staubfall in Schweden und angrenzenden Landern am 3. Mai 1892. Meteorol. Zeitschr. 11, 201-218, 1894.) Schythe, J.C. 1847. Hekla og dens sidste Udbrud, den 2den September 1845. Udg. paa det offentliges Bekostning, Kjöbenhavn. 154+1 bls. og 10 myndasíður. Sigurður Þórarinsson 1980. Langleiðirgjósku úr þremur Kötlugosum. Jökull 30. 65-73. Sigurður Þórarinsson 1981. Greetings from Ice- land. Ash-falls and volcanic aerosols in Scan- dinavia. Geogr. Ann. 63A, 109-118. Traill, T.S. 1844-50. On the recent eruption of Hecla, and the volcanic shower in Orkney. Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. 2. 56-57. ■ SUMMARY Tephra from the 1845 Hekla eruption IN THE ORKNEYS In a well-known article by Sigurður Þórarinsson (1981) it is stated that tephra from the first phase ol' the 1845 Hekla eruption fell on a ship near the Orkney islands. There is, however, more to this story: contemporaneous published papers describe an ashfall in the Faeroes, Ork- neys and neighbouring areas on 2-3 Sept. 1845. These accounts were widely distributed and at- tracted attention among scientists. PÓSTFANG HÖFUNDAR/AöTHOR 's AdDRESS Leó Kristjánsson Raunvísindastofnun Háskólans Haga, Hofsvallagötu 53 IS-107 Reykjavík leo@raunvis.hi.is 95

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